Robin Kemp’s literary braindump

Rhetorical analysis: “recollection”

Your assignment: analyze the rhetorical use of “recollect,” “recollection,” and related forms of the verb to recollect as used by various members of the Bush Administration, specifically in relation to the CIA’s destroying videotaped evidence of torture. Extra credit: Compare and contrast the use of “recollect,” etc. by members of the Nixon Administration during Watergate.